The question is: How do we find effective partners to govern in those parts of Iraq that right now are ungovernable?
Barack Obama: “The question is: How do we find effective partners to govern in those parts of Iraq that right now are ungovernable?”
On the recordMay 18, 2015
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Interview with Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic
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